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2013 Bulletin Board

by Kaylah Stroup

It’s becoming an annual thing to clear my bulletin board off and start fresh at the beginning of each year. (See 2012’s here) It’s nice to get a chance of scenery in here!

I tried my hardest to only include things that weren’t up on the 2012 board but there were some I just couldn’t leave behind. That silly smiling cat postcard, the tiny deer mount, and “five dollar felines” ad all had to go back up, I just love them too much to hide them away in a drawer.

One of my favorite things up there currently (other than the super awesome banner I made from a salvaged natural history book!) is the little dried mushroom seen in the third photo. Like I mentioned I’ve been cleaning like crazy. De-cluttering everything! One of the things I did was clean out my collection of mushrooms. I had a lot of not so nice specimens from before I really got the hang of drying mushrooms. I choose to only save some of my favorites that I would display instead of keeping them all hidden away in a container like they were. This tiny little guy was one who made the cut but I wanted a better way to display him since I was just smitten with how cute he was. He was already attached to some moss and wouldn’t ya know it while browsing through the same book I made the banner from I stumbled upon a cute little picture of moss. So I glued the mushroom and it’s moss onto the paper. I just love the way it looks. It kind of makes me want to experiment with more print and natural world collages, I think that could be really cool!

A few sources…
stay home club.
“you’re the cat’s pajamas” postcard.
nail polish rack.
the numbered push pins, deer mount and sunglasses are all vintage.

xoxo

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what I wore : the rose bowl

by Kaylah Stroup
details
hat – thrifted
coat – vintage
dress – Dear Creatures (via Modcloth)
shirt – thrifted
cardigan – Modcloth
sweater clips – handmade
ring – c/o Sea of Bees
brooch – vintage
belt – Moss Mills via Fab
tights – Target
camera bag – Jo Totes

How lovely is this vintage coat? I got it back in August on my annual birthday antiquing roadtrip. Last stop of the day about ten minutes before we were about to walk out of the antique mall I spotted it. Love at first sight!! It’s the softest velvety material.

Despite how soft it is and how perfect the color is my favorite part might just be what I found in the pocket. There was a ticket to the 1973 Pasadena Rose Bowl. It’s not the fact that it’s the Rose Bowl that is significant to me (I literally couldn’t care less about college football) but I’m just so in love with the fact that 40 years ago someone was wearing this coat. I know, obviously, that nearly all the vintage I own has had a previous owner but to put a real date and event on it makes it feel so special. I wonder who wore it, and what she wore with it.  I wonder if she’s still alive and I wonder what she’d think of someone discovering the coat 40 years from the time she wore it and absolutely loving it.

I don’t know about you but thinking about who owned something before I did is one of my very favorite things about buying vintage. Needless to say, I’m keeping the ticket in the pocket and maybe I’ll leave a movie stub from one I see while wearing the coat in it for the next person who owns it to find and hopefully enjoy.

Hope you’re having an excellent Monday!
xoxo

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what I wore : to the icy beach

by Kaylah Stroup
 details 
dress – Modcloth
sweater – thrifted
necklace – c/o Yellow Heart Art
belt – thrifted
socks – Target
shoes – thrifted
camera bag – Jo Totes

I’ve definitely said it a hundred times before (and I’ll probably say it a hundred more) but I really love the beach this time of the year. Sure the beach is awesome during the summer when it’s sunny out and the water is warm but it’s really interesting to see it with snow, and ice on the sand. It’s like a whole different place (not exactly as foreign as when it’s really snowy out but still!) I never want to live far from the beach.

I bought this dress a while back when Modcloth had a big sale. I was instantly smitten with the colors and had to have it. I’d been hoarding it away to wear on the perfect fall day. I envisioned frolicking in the fallen leaves in it. But that time frame came and went to quickly I never got the chance. So I figured I may as well just wear it now instead. Frolicking around on the icy beach isn’t quite as nice as in the woods during the fall (dude, it was cold) but hey, I still had lots of fun searching for treasures and taking pictures!

xoxo

ps. did you spot the picture where you can see through my septum?

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10 of my favorite nail designs from 2012

by Kaylah Stroup
I’ve always loved painting my nails. I maybe wasn’t always that great at it (I’ve spilled on the carpet and ruined many coffee tables in my day) but this year I really got into it. In March I started the Weekly Nail feature so I would stop painting my nails literally every day and have a chance to show off some of my designs. Here are 10 of my favorite nail designs from 2012…

If you’re curious about the supplies used for each I’ve included a link to each post where the design was featured…
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 .

xoxo

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My Favorite 10 outfits from 2012!

by Kaylah Stroup
At the very beginning of 2012 I shared my favorite outfits from 2011, so of course it’s only proper that I share a few of my favorite outfits from 2012…

1 // Maroon and Gold 2 // First Coat of the Season 3 // A New Favorite 4 // Polka Dots All Over

5 // Country Mouse 6 // Black, White and Mint 7 // Blue Suede Shoes 8 // Bright and Sunny

It was quite hard to choose only ten! There were so many I really liked (and only a few I found embarrassing! Hah!) I kind of wish I had something more to say about my outfits or that I could talk about how my style has evolved but it’s pretty similar to last year. I’m mostly into high waisted skirts
with fun shirts, and dresses – always belted – with a cardigan, tights
and fun shoes. The thing that changes the most is whether it’s
obnoxious patterns or not and whether it’s neutrals colors, bright
colors, or pastels I’m into at the time. All in all, I’m pretty predictable style wise.

Hope you’re having a great weekend!
xoxo

Shout out to my bowler caps to appearing three times in these ten outfits. Clearly one of the best things I’ve ever thrifted.
Also, I am horrible at naming outfit posts, I know. Haha!
 

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This year I…

by Kaylah Stroup
For the last two years I’ve done a little recap of the things I did that year and I’m going to keep that little tradition going for as long as possible. They’re really fun to look back at even if not much has really changed at all.

This year I…
dyed my hair a bunch of pretty colors!
made friends with a bunch of stray cats including Carl, Lloyd and Cornelius.
found a new favorite city, Chicago!
met all kinds of neat critters.
 spent lots of time at the beach, both playing in the water and collecting treasures!
 baked lots of tasty treats.
 spent a silly amount of time jumping around

became a big sister to a little puppy who quickly became a giant dog (that 100% stole my heart)!

fell back in love with film!

2012 was a pretty good year if I do say so!

I’ll be spending my new years eve at home (as always!) playing video games and drinking the tastiest rootbeer. I might even spend some time in the bathtub with a book and some of new lush goodies Santa brought me! Sounds like a pretty nice way to bring in the new year if I do say so myself.
xoxo!

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what we wore : twins!

by Kaylah Stroup

 details
glasses – BonLook
sweater – Modcloth
dress – Modcloth
necklace – c/o Hannah Zakari
belt – thrifted
ring – c/o Sea of Bees
tights – Modcloth
shoes – Romwe
When Elycia showed up to my house with the same dress as one I had I knew we had to wear them together, no matter how dorky that would be! We talked about how it would be neat to show how we’d style the same dress but in reality that kind of failed because we have extremely similar styles – a dress + a cardigan + long necklace + tights + snazzy shoes = the perfect outfit to us, clearly. I think it’s kind of funny we even wore the same cardigan just in different colors. Great minds think alike I suppose. 😉

Hope you have an excellent Monday!
xoxo

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Weekly Nail

by Kaylah Stroup

Supplies used…
American Apparel Lopez Canyon
Coastal Scents Azalea
Seche Vite as a top coat
Nail stickers (blogged about here // bought from here) 


How gorgeous are these!? I am smitten! I think I’ll be repainting these again soon, maybe even in the same color scheme.

Sometimes I spend too much time trying to find fun color duos and forget that sometimes the prettiest color combinations are right beside each other on the shelf. (you can see my nail polish collection here) Also, I realized I need a good red polish, this one chips quite quickly. It’s also literally the only red polish I own, which seems kind of funny since red seems like a really standard polish color. I normally tend to shy away from it but this combo has me itching to try red more often.

Hope you’re having an excellent Sunday!
xoxo

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Weekly Nail

by Kaylah Stroup

Supplies used…
Zoya Dove
Wet n’ Wild Wet Cement
American Apparel Malibu Green
Seche Vite as a top coat
Nail stickers (blogged about here // bought from here) 

I love this combo so much! Gray and blue go so nicely together, in my opinion. This shape nail sticker is definitely one of my favorites from the bunch. Whenever I browse back through my weekly nail posts the ones I used this shape for normally stick out the most – like this one and this one! It just always looks so pretty!
xoxo

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